N-invas est c ffr sw aly cta at HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
1313 Hermann Dr, Houston, TX · HCA Houston Healthcare · · NPI 1073043592
$13,107.50
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$13,107.50
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$786.45 with Superior Health Plan vs $6,986.30 with Coventry National First Health — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Superior Health Plan | STAR | $786.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHPFC | $786.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | CHIP | $786.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARPLUS | $786.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Superior Health Plan | STARKids | $786.45 | ↓ -94% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIP | $1,703.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | CHIPPerinatal | $1,703.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR | $1,703.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Community Health Choice MCD | STAR+PLUS | $1,703.97 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS | MyBlueHealth | $1,753.28 | ↓ -87% |
| United | NarrowNetworkIndivExchange | $1,892.74 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | CSN | $1,939.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | OpenAccessPlus | $2,097.20 | ↓ -84% |
| United | OptionsPPO | $2,202.06 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS | BAV | $2,221.48 | ↓ -83% |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $2,241.41 | ↓ -83% |
| United | SmallGroup | $2,241.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | PPO | $2,490.43 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS | HMO | $3,387.01 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | QHPExchange | $3,473.49 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS | EPOSOA | $3,626.10 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS | PPO | $3,855.22 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | NBPPO | $4,207.51 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBPOS | $4,207.51 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | NBHMO | $4,207.51 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | COMMPPO | $4,482.77 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMHMO | $4,482.77 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | COMMPOS | $4,482.77 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS | Traditional | $4,587.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Christus (USFHP) | TRICARE | $5,243.00 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPPO | $5,256.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONPOS | $5,256.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | OONHMO | $5,256.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | ASAHMO | $5,675.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPOS | $5,675.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | ASAPPO | $5,675.55 | ↓ -57% |
| United | GlobalAppendix | $5,898.38 | ↓ -55% |
| Coventry National First Health | COMM | $6,986.30 | ↓ -47% |
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N-invas est c ffr sw aly cta at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Baylor St Luke's Medical Center | Houston | $1,774.50 | $100.00 – $5,070.00 |
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $1,774.50 | $100.00 – $5,070.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $1,753.28 – $1,892.74 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $1,753.28 – $1,892.74 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $5,133.32 | $819.52 – $6,416.65 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $3,700.94 | $761.78 – $5,551.42 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $3,700.94 | $740.19 – $4,626.18 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $5,133.32 | $819.52 – $6,416.65 |